Comment on Global Science Research Journals: A Dangerous Publisher, Keep...
I am aware a university in Nigeria frowns at Journals emanating from this publisher and thus advises academic staff not to patronize…..
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Dear Jeffrey Beall, I am curious. How do they manage to keep decently high impact factor journals? I am thinking on Sensors (IF 2.048, JCR; 1st quartile in Instruments and Instrumentation), for instance.
View ArticleComment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by The Strange...
[…] What kind of academic publisher would host an outfit like this? Well, JRDS is published by United Scientific Group (USG[22]), which is on Beall’s List of ‘predatory’ open access publishers[23]. […]
View ArticleComment on Appeals by JanosToth
I just got spammed by http://transconpublishers.org I visited their website and decided to post them here, they may deserve a spot.
View ArticleComment on Global Science Research Journals: A Dangerous Publisher, Keep...
Regarding IJBRITISH, see: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/10/09/ridiculous-oa-journal-launches-with-ridiculous-title/
View ArticleComment on Another Strange New OA Publisher with a Strange Name by Marco
If anyone is interested, I have prepared a document highlighting the plagiarized sections. It would have been much quicker if I had highlighted the non-plagiarized sections, because those amounted to 2...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
Perhaps different MDPI journals operate differently. As a guest editor, I did have control of the situation. They did create a list, but I reviewed it personally and decided who I would permit them to...
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It is also important to point out that, after attacking and threatening Jeffrey in many ways, MDPI tried to buy him !!! Of course, he ignored the offer (as it is highlighted in that interview...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
About the Special Issue deadlines, I can tell that, in the case of Galaxies, it was extended once. Then, it was closed, and no more submissions were accepted. Moreover, after the unjustified and comic...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
Perhaps different MDPI journals operate differently. As a guest editor with Entropy, I did have control of the situation. They did create a list, but I reviewed it personally and decided who I would...
View ArticleComment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One...
I just received an email from D. Fazel with an invitation to submit to “Medical Research Archives.” Mr. Fazel even went so far as to google me and claim he looked at one of my recent papers, which he...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
useless??? There are a lot of evidence and examples in this contribution, which corroborate with previous facts about this predatory publisher. Plus “the statement was endorsed by interviews with other...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
Interesting about the keyword search that coughs up author emails… I wonder if they wrote a script that reads article titles and auto-inserts them into emails? Because that would be a super sneaky way...
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
Frankly speaking, I did not and do not care anything if publisher X allegedly behave badly with a journal y outside my field of expertise: I only look at what X does with the journal(s) I am interested...
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“But why Web of Science also does not kick out these journals which are based in all kinds of questionable actions???” mmmhh… Perhaps because many journals indexed by Thomson Reuters are also involved...
View ArticleComment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One...
I did!! Thanks for the suggestion!
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Polish Scholarly Journal is Hijacked by Tuğba
What a bad luck it is !!! I hope they accept our withdraw.. well, If they don’t send me any feedback, can i submit it to different journal? In your previous comment you indicated that we must tell the...
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Polish Scholarly Journal is Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall
To protect yourself, I think it’s a good idea to be completely open and honest about a paper’s history when you withdraw it from one journal and submit it to a new one.
View ArticleComment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable...
I think mdpi has a manuscript management system for all their journals; at least it appeared to be so. Entropy certainly had one. They did try to find peer reviewers, and many of them I know...
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The problem is that bad reputation of the publisher is infectious and affect to the authors.
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